Spanish Audio Content

Just trying to make a more immersive environment for Spanish, and I really to to improve language -- quickly, slowly, however it happens.  I plan to add to this list

Musica

• Latino 90s Pop Mix
• Rock en español 80 y 90

News/talking heads

• Radio España (Rtve)
• IMER (Mexican Public Radio)

Religious

• Santa Biblia

When I get some, I check out these podcasts.

Making Room for More Spanish

Getting better at Spanish is a big deal to me.  But, so is living a balanced, happy life.

I have a lot of things I am trying to do: being a good husband, lose weight, cut my spending so that working a half day makes sense, landscape.  So my language-learning time has limits.  Thus I have decided to move Esperanto to the back-burner (ie maintain the cards in Anki, but not add any new ones).  I will give the time saved to Spanish.

I love Esperanto and look forward to learning it to the point I can journal in it in the future, but Spanish is the more practical language, and I love it just as well, maybe better.

One move I am making is to give Spanish the prime real estate of my bookmarks on my browser.  I am removing the Esperanto sites for now.

So away goes my table of Esperanto Correlatives (God, the correlatives in Esperanto are so brilliant, once you understand the code.)

Also away goes CRI online in Esperanto, great source of small news articles.

They will come back up when Esperanto is my focus again.

Monthly Update -- September

Spirit

I have began meditating again.  I usually set a timer to meditate, with my most normal time being 3 minutes.  I find that usually to be a big help calming my "monkey mind" -- though meditation is an endeavor where the mileage most likely varies from person to person.

I've started back listening to On Being Podcasts while entering grades and other parts of routine clerical work.

• The Buddha in the World
• Stress and the Balance Within

Also I watched this Peak Moment video and listened to it like a podcast.

Mind

I am working on moving all of my historical dates that I want to remember from the disappointing Memrise over to Anki.  (mmm. . . note to self: I need to back up these Anki files).

For the first half of the month, I was adding on to my Esperanto deck in Anki on average a few sentences a day and trying to write a sentence in Esperanto every day.

Then I read a history of Spanish Civilization, in Spanish, and I just caught fire, and decided to go for learning Spanish hard.

My current stats for the Spanish Challenge.

242,100 of 1,000,000 words read9 hrs, 30 min of 100 hours of television/video0 of 20 hours of conversation practice

Body

Not a lot here.  Hopefully I have better stuff to report next month.